85 Avenue, Queens NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026

Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does 85 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.

Calm 40, ranked against busy avenues. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts 85 Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (60) and tree cover (97); infrastructure (8) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 85 Avenue, with 229 reports. HPD has cited 24 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Since 2021, 39 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, quietness ranks 60 among busy avenues. Only about 12% of the 717 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.

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